[128] Lacretelle, ‘Convocation des États-Généraux’; Bertrand de Molleville,’ Observations adressées à l’Assemblée des Notables.’
[129] ‘Observations lues aux représentants du Tiers-État à Bordeaux,’ December, 1788.
[130] ‘Requête du Tiers-État de la ville de Bourg,’ December, 1788.
[131] ‘Délibérations de la ville de Nîmes en Conseil général.’
[132] ‘Des conditions nécessaires à la légalité des États-Généraux.’
[133] ‘De la députation aux États-Généraux.’
[134] ‘Avis aux Français,’ 1788. A pamphlet written in 1788, but full of the true revolutionary spirit of 1792.
[135] Mounier himself was just as little able as the most violent revolutionists, who were soon to appear, to conceive the idea of rights derived from the past; of political usages and customs which are in reality laws, though unwritten, and only to be touched with caution, of interests to be respected and very gradually modified without causing a rupture between that which has been and that which is to be—the idea, in short, which is the first principle of practical and regular political liberty. See Mounier’s ‘Nouvelles Observations sur les États-Généraux.’
[136] The Marquis de Gouy d’Arcy in a ‘Mémoire au Roi en faveur de la noblesse Française, par un patricien ami du peuple,’ 1788.
[137] This appears from a correspondence of M—— with M. Necker, examined by me in the archives.